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in a little more than an hour, more about civil rights then and now, the achievements of the past 60 years, and civil rights issues today. >> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programing throughout the week, and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. more now from the john f. kennedy presidential library conference on the presidency and civil rights. the next panel, which is a little more than an hour, focuses on president kennedy's civil rights legacy. >> so if we could have your attention. we'll now good to our next panel on the presidencies of john f. kennedy and lyndon baines johnson. >> all right. so now it is good afternoon, so good afternoon. and remember that we're honoring two presidents, george wash and abraham lincoln. here is something from abraham lincoln that seems fit for this afternoon. the probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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solutions that matter. >>> mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights. but 65-year-old romney refused to participate in any way in america's civil rights movement when he had a chance. mitt romney has no right to be lecturing anyone on civil rights. that's next on the rewrite. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. today training depends on technology. and when it takes a battery, there are athletes everywhere who trust duracell. they rely on copper to go for the gold. duracell. trusted everywhere. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. [ male announcer ] aggressive styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. ♪ the 2012
solutions that matter. >>> mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights. but 65-year-old romney refused to participate in any way in america's civil rights movement when he had a chance. mitt romney has no right to be lecturing anyone on civil rights. that's next on the rewrite. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a...
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in original and also fragrance-free. >>> mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights. but 65-year-old romney refused to participate in any way in america's civil rights movement when he had a chance. mitt romney has no right to be lecturing anyone on civil rights. that's next on the rewrite. follow the wings. [ male announcer ] we imagined a vehicle that could adapt to changing road conditions. one that continually monitors and corrects for wheel slip. we imagined a vehicle that can increase emergency braking power when you need it most. and we imagined it looking like nothing else on the road today. then...we built it. the 2012 glk. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. the economy needs manufacturing. machines, tools, people making stuff. companies have to invest in making things. infrastructure, construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron's putting more than $8 billion dollar
in original and also fragrance-free. >>> mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights. but 65-year-old romney refused to participate in any way in america's civil rights movement when he had a chance. mitt romney has no right to be lecturing anyone on civil rights. that's next on the rewrite. follow the wings. [ male announcer ] we imagined a vehicle that could adapt to changing road conditions. one that continually monitors and corrects for wheel slip. we imagined a vehicle that...
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and by the best guesstimate of the civil rights leadership, the various civil rights organizations, at least 17 people had been killed because of their activity in civil rights demonstrations between 1960 and 1962. in other words, this was slow progress. this was very, very slow progress. and as you can imagine, a number of people were becoming upset with this. a number of people were becoming increasingly impatient. as a matter of fact, and i'll pull this -- these are the freedom rides. none how much -- i don't know how much i want to say about that. i'll come back and say something about it. but the point of this assessment by all of these civil rights activists is that as one said, if we continue at this rate -- if we continue at this rate, it will take them until 1980 before all of the south is desegregated. if it we continue at this rate, it will take until 1980, before all of the south is integrated. and as a result, some people began to talk about doing something. doing something big to try to focus national attention on the civil rights campaigns. let me -- i'm going to sort of
and by the best guesstimate of the civil rights leadership, the various civil rights organizations, at least 17 people had been killed because of their activity in civil rights demonstrations between 1960 and 1962. in other words, this was slow progress. this was very, very slow progress. and as you can imagine, a number of people were becoming upset with this. a number of people were becoming increasingly impatient. as a matter of fact, and i'll pull this -- these are the freedom rides. none...
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civil rights laws. it was mentioned earlier that under president eisenhower's watch, the 1957 civil rights act was enacted. the 1960 civil rights act that gave the justice department additional powers to enforce civil rights. but really still very, very significant constraints on what the justice department can do. the naacp is caught up with the struggle of trying to implement brown versus the board of education and then there was martin luther king who was catapulted to prominence with the montgomery busboy cot. in 1955 and 1956. but king is also looking in 1960, '61 for ways to push the movement forward. so what the context was a lot had been done. desegregation of the military, brown versus board of education. president kennedy and robert kennedy were both racial liberals. they were actually comfortable with social equality. they were personally comfortable around african-americans, which was a -- which distinguished them from most of the predecessors in the office of the presidency, but still nobod
civil rights laws. it was mentioned earlier that under president eisenhower's watch, the 1957 civil rights act was enacted. the 1960 civil rights act that gave the justice department additional powers to enforce civil rights. but really still very, very significant constraints on what the justice department can do. the naacp is caught up with the struggle of trying to implement brown versus the board of education and then there was martin luther king who was catapulted to prominence with the...
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to push it now would lose our capital for the civil rights idea, and for ourselves. it doesn't make sense. so we need to do everything we can do to short of legislation. and king pressed for a new emancipation proclamation that would be across the board, a set of actions of the boldest kind. and kennedy wasn't ready for it. when we left, kennedy said -- i mean, martin luther king, as we went out of the white house grounds, he said, you know, i had hoped that he was going to be the president that had the understanding to understand this problem. the political skill to solve it. and the moral passion and urgency to see it through. and he said, i'm really convinced that he's got the first two. and we'll have to see about the last one. and hamilton -- alexander hamilton said the constitution wasn't adopted because of the argument of the federalists, it was adopted because of the harsh logic of events. and you could say that the kennedys started way down toward ground zero in terms of understanding, or commitment to priority to civil rights. by the time john was killed, a
to push it now would lose our capital for the civil rights idea, and for ourselves. it doesn't make sense. so we need to do everything we can do to short of legislation. and king pressed for a new emancipation proclamation that would be across the board, a set of actions of the boldest kind. and kennedy wasn't ready for it. when we left, kennedy said -- i mean, martin luther king, as we went out of the white house grounds, he said, you know, i had hoped that he was going to be the president...
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frame it, in fact, led to a civil rights movement and not a human rights movement. >> so, now, with those two wars in context, let's talk about a truman coming from where he's coming from and coming off what we know about fdr, how he moved towards even getting to the point, you mentioned his veterans of being veterans, you thinking of desegregating the army and you talked about desegregating the army and to talk about when they think about civil rights and truman we sort of stick him there, there's a broad picture so if you would discuss that. >> part of that picture, dave, is absolutely right. truman was in a battle for his electoral life in that 1948 campaign, and clark clifford made it clear the only way to win that election is get that black vote, the black vote that moved up north to the electorally powerful -- electoral college powerful states so that was part of it. the other part of what truman was dealing with was he had the sense of justice, and he saw the injustice. but he's also tied into the missouri resistance. when you talk about the complexity of these presidents in
frame it, in fact, led to a civil rights movement and not a human rights movement. >> so, now, with those two wars in context, let's talk about a truman coming from where he's coming from and coming off what we know about fdr, how he moved towards even getting to the point, you mentioned his veterans of being veterans, you thinking of desegregating the army and you talked about desegregating the army and to talk about when they think about civil rights and truman we sort of stick him...
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we're trying to kind of do civil rights then and now. what's the struggle for women's rights and contemporary? >> this is my school partner. >> well, any place that i can share with roger. i'm not so concerned about passing the equal rights amendment as i am about promoting and risking life and lim to say that women's rights are human rights, human rights are civil rights, and civil rights are human rights and human rights are civil rights. and i think that that is the major issue of our time. i think the sort of the unintended consequence, if you will, to echo charlayne's point, i mean, look at affirmative action. who did affirmative action help? it helped white women more than it helped people of color, and so i think that women have a huge road to hoe, and i think that in many ways, despite the progress that we've made, there's still major stereotypes. i mean, i'm thrilled that obama is my president, but i gave my heart and soul to hillary clinton, okay, and i have known her since 1970, and i went to 15 states -- 14 states. i knocked
we're trying to kind of do civil rights then and now. what's the struggle for women's rights and contemporary? >> this is my school partner. >> well, any place that i can share with roger. i'm not so concerned about passing the equal rights amendment as i am about promoting and risking life and lim to say that women's rights are human rights, human rights are civil rights, and civil rights are human rights and human rights are civil rights. and i think that that is the major issue...
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rights ordinance to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of every individual in our community and work to provide alternatives to policies that disproportionately target people of color, emigrants, and other marginalized community members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm from the grocer's association in san francisco. i stand with you in full support of the safe civil-rights ordinance. we urge you to add your vocal support to the growing coalition behind this legislation. as representatives of a robust neighborhood grocers association consisting of 450 members, we continue to advocate for and organize the community of minority-on businesses that play a crucial role in neighborhood stabilization. this legislation goes a long way toward reaffirming the city's previous commitments to the civil rights for all san francisco residents as well as ensuring san francisco has a local oversight of the san francisco police department's interrogations and surveillance techniques. it provides guidelines for intelligence gathering that insurers our minority small
rights ordinance to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of every individual in our community and work to provide alternatives to policies that disproportionately target people of color, emigrants, and other marginalized community members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm from the grocer's association in san francisco. i stand with you in full support of the safe civil-rights ordinance. we urge you to add your vocal support to the growing coalition...
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are now the most, the most prevalent and the most serious circle of injustice, civil rights are limited in their ability to make a difference. >> interesting. i've done a lot of these questions. okay, going back to education issues, affirmative action, which was originally intended to be about the big picture. where are we now on that? >> well, that's a very big question. >> from a civil rights law standpoint. >> from a civil rights lost hos: template, affirmative action iss legally acceptable in a fairly narrow range of circumstances, but what we see as the legal debate around the affirmative h action, it's done severall interesting things.ings. one, the principles that were at one time understood to be in support of things like integration have now been turned against policies that are designed to integrate workforces, schools and what have you, affirmative action policy. baby goat on a relatively narrow idea that the legal entries discrimination and discrimination narrowly defined a from the action, narrowly defined. at it the kit's an instance of the kind of thinking that i am descr
are now the most, the most prevalent and the most serious circle of injustice, civil rights are limited in their ability to make a difference. >> interesting. i've done a lot of these questions. okay, going back to education issues, affirmative action, which was originally intended to be about the big picture. where are we now on that? >> well, that's a very big question. >> from a civil rights law standpoint. >> from a civil rights lost hos: template, affirmative action...
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and so historians have termed the new way of setting the civil rights movement, the long civil rights movement. looking not just at the black white binary but also looking at how women are looked at, religion, if it's an issue of sexuality. trying to be a little more inclusive. maryland's place in the civil rights is intriguing because maryland is a border state slaves were free. half as many free black living in baltimore as there are enslaved labor at the same time. and it's the combination of looking at things that rule. so in that very confused, complex border state, you have other more movements that are looked at. so we look at something like the sit-ins that happened at greensboro at 1950 north carolina and we're not looking at what is occurring here in 1955. we're looking at how events are involving the southern christian leadership conference but we're not looking to see how women, teachers were organizing to receive equal pay in baltimore as early as the 1930s. so baltimore and maryland, it's a new wave of studies saying they really predate a lot of the earlier struggles tha
and so historians have termed the new way of setting the civil rights movement, the long civil rights movement. looking not just at the black white binary but also looking at how women are looked at, religion, if it's an issue of sexuality. trying to be a little more inclusive. maryland's place in the civil rights is intriguing because maryland is a border state slaves were free. half as many free black living in baltimore as there are enslaved labor at the same time. and it's the combination...
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now in many ways advocates for social justice using our hearts and minds perceived into the civil rights narrative so you start off with a narrative and it is a bigoted town. it is the perfect instance but it is ambiguous and a lot of people have legitimate objections to the idea is straightforward civil-rights the you are preaching to the choir. so that says to me a consistent pattern with many are much of the civil-rights agitation of today that we lost the battle to win hearts and minds of those. but how to fix that is a complicated question because so many social injustices are not susceptible to a dramatic narrative are susceptible to the narrative of the individual reno has done wrong but instead they are complicated. through statistics and analogies that lead people to flawlessly. that can is the challenge. i don't have a straightforward answer but i do believe that is a challenge to make them more hour to make them come alive to be real without going through the bit to the individual that is a hard narrative to maintain. >> host: have the divide and conquer strategy is by the eco
now in many ways advocates for social justice using our hearts and minds perceived into the civil rights narrative so you start off with a narrative and it is a bigoted town. it is the perfect instance but it is ambiguous and a lot of people have legitimate objections to the idea is straightforward civil-rights the you are preaching to the choir. so that says to me a consistent pattern with many are much of the civil-rights agitation of today that we lost the battle to win hearts and minds of...
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now. or in the foreseeable future. those who criticized eisenhower on civil rights often point out that he did not use the bully pulpit of the presidency to push this issue forward. to play a part about the issue. his reticence came to the foremost glaringly after the supreme court delivered its unanimous decision striking down segregated school in the brown versus the board of education topeka case. when the supreme court announced the decision in may 1954, the president made no public comment about the ruling other than to assert his willingness to obey the court's decisions. his perspective on the brown ruling may have been expressed best in remarks that he made to his staff. quote, it's all very well to talk about school integration. but you may also be talking about social disintegration. we can't demand perfection in moral questions. all we can do is keep working toward a goal and keep it high. and the fellow who tries to tell me that you can do these things by force is just plain nu
now. or in the foreseeable future. those who criticized eisenhower on civil rights often point out that he did not use the bully pulpit of the presidency to push this issue forward. to play a part about the issue. his reticence came to the foremost glaringly after the supreme court delivered its unanimous decision striking down segregated school in the brown versus the board of education topeka case. when the supreme court announced the decision in may 1954, the president made no public comment...
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now, as we look back on it now, that civil rights bill was very weak. as we look back on it now, the -- probably the major thing that came out of the civil rights bill was the u.s. civil rights commission, which is still in existence, still limping along. but on the other, in 1957, that civil rights bill was the first bill of its kind to be passed by the u.s. congress since 1875. which -- think about that. in other words, finally congress was beginning to act on the rights of blacks and other people of color throughout the country. also, by 1960, those students in the south saw the success -- had witnessed the success of martin luther king. now, we won't -- we don't have time to talk about the montgomery bus boycott, but i think you're all familiar with it. i will say this. the montgomery bus boycott was a prime example of ordinary people. you know the story of rosa parks, okay? and you know that she's a brave woman, and you know there are monuments to her all over the country. what you probably don't know is the rest of the story. rosa parks, her symbo
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but right now we don't have an alternative. in dealing with these subtle forms of discrimination that are now the most the most prevalent and the most serious social injustices, civil-rights are limited in their ability to make a difference. >> interesting. the and the lot of these questions. okay. the one back to educational issues, affirmative-action, which was originally intended to be about the big picture, where are we now? >> well, that is a very big question. >> from a civil rights law standpoint. >> from a civil rights law standpoint, affirmative-action is legally and acceptable in a preliminary range of circumstances, but what we have seen is the legal debate around affirmative action has -- it has done several interesting things. one, the legal principles that were at one time understood to be in support of things like integration have now been turned against policies that are designed to integrate work forces, schools and what have you, affirmative-action policies. they begin on a relatively narrow idea that the lega
but right now we don't have an alternative. in dealing with these subtle forms of discrimination that are now the most the most prevalent and the most serious social injustices, civil-rights are limited in their ability to make a difference. >> interesting. the and the lot of these questions. okay. the one back to educational issues, affirmative-action, which was originally intended to be about the big picture, where are we now? >> well, that is a very big question. >> from a...
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now we historians, we argue a back and forth over this issue of when did the civil rights movement begin. and of course those of us who believe that the civil rights movement is a long movement. i had one colleague say to me that the civil rights movement started when the first slave got off the boat. but then most people, though, will say it started in 1954 with the brown decision and the montgomery bus boycott. well, the long civil rights movement, though, actually does go back to people like robert smalls who indeed were trying to pass and propose legislation that would give african-americans equal opportunity to work, equal opportunity and public accommodations as you have heard. equal access to the ballot, and basically, dignity. and smalls' own life sort of sets the tone for that in that he was a fighter. he challenged discrimination every opportunity and every chance that he got. now some of you, as you heard helen say this morning, i worked with her family to develop the exhibition that is now at the charleston museum. so i spent a year with robert smalls, you might say. that is,
now we historians, we argue a back and forth over this issue of when did the civil rights movement begin. and of course those of us who believe that the civil rights movement is a long movement. i had one colleague say to me that the civil rights movement started when the first slave got off the boat. but then most people, though, will say it started in 1954 with the brown decision and the montgomery bus boycott. well, the long civil rights movement, though, actually does go back to people like...
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we have agencies now that say you can't do that. in the 1930s, civil rights comes through with a collective labor rights. and also the fair labor act tomorrow they all kind of protected, and then something interesting happens, which is in the 1940s and 1950s, civil rights becomes much more entwined with race. but that is not always the case, and that really changes. one of the other interesting things is that it is not always clear that civil rights means voting rights or that civil rights means the right to eat in a restaurant in a non-segregated basis. if you look back at the civil war, the reconstruction era, the 14th amendment, which is one of the main amendments that supports civil rights today, was ratified, people really thought that civil rights were about owning property in making contracts and sitting on a jury and being able to sue in court. but not about what they called social rights. being able to go to a hotel or ride on a streetcar or to a restaurant or attend a school, and certainly not political rights, which were
we have agencies now that say you can't do that. in the 1930s, civil rights comes through with a collective labor rights. and also the fair labor act tomorrow they all kind of protected, and then something interesting happens, which is in the 1940s and 1950s, civil rights becomes much more entwined with race. but that is not always the case, and that really changes. one of the other interesting things is that it is not always clear that civil rights means voting rights or that civil rights...
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now, we didn't notice then, because we were focused on civil rights. he had no reference to any domestic issue whatsoever, until louie martin and i got two words added at the last minute. "at home." the quote we heard at the beginning of the day, we're going to support, committed to human rights at home and around the world. it was about 24 hours before he spoke that he added "at home." his main interest in life until then had been foreign affairs. wrote a book about it in 1920 why england slept. i never had any doubt that he wanted to end segregation, but i had plenty of doubt as to what priority he would put until the protest movement in blood on too many occasions stirred him, which is a huge historical fact. >> i've got a couple of -- >> one quick thing. >> i've got a question -- >> the media. i've been a moderator, too. >> give me one second. i'm going to let you say it, but hold on one second. i've got to move this, because we've got questions here. i need to get a couple of conclusions that need to be made here so people can follow this. one is
now, we didn't notice then, because we were focused on civil rights. he had no reference to any domestic issue whatsoever, until louie martin and i got two words added at the last minute. "at home." the quote we heard at the beginning of the day, we're going to support, committed to human rights at home and around the world. it was about 24 hours before he spoke that he added "at home." his main interest in life until then had been foreign affairs. wrote a book about it in...
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civil rights laws. it was mentioned earlier that under eisenhower's watch, the civil rights act was enacted. it gave the justice department additional powers to enforce civil rights. still very, very significant con strands on what the justice department can do. the naacp is caught up with the brown v. board of education. then there is martin luther king. he was catapulted in 1965. king is also looking in 1960 and '61 for ways to push the movement forward. desegregation of the military, brown v. board of education, president kennedy and robert kennedy were racial liberals. they were comfortable with social equality. they were comfortable around african-americans. which distinguished them from most of the predecessors in the office of the presidency, but still nobody knew what the next step was. in fact, the next steps were driven by things and people who were outside of the office of the president of the united states, outside of the executive branch. the next steps were driven by african-americans and
civil rights laws. it was mentioned earlier that under eisenhower's watch, the civil rights act was enacted. it gave the justice department additional powers to enforce civil rights. still very, very significant con strands on what the justice department can do. the naacp is caught up with the brown v. board of education. then there is martin luther king. he was catapulted in 1965. king is also looking in 1960 and '61 for ways to push the movement forward. desegregation of the military, brown...
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historians have termed a new way of setting the civil rights movement, the long civil rights movement, looking not just at the black-white binary, but also looking at how women are looked at, religion, issues of sexuality, issues of new folk kai of gender and trying to be more maryland's place in the civil rights movement is really intriguing because maryland is a border state. so it's neither north, north-south. i had this argument again with my students this afternoon in my great migration class. it's neither slave or free. there are half as many free blacks living in there are enslaved laborers at the same time. and it's the combination of loonging at both a state that's rural and urban. so in that very confused, complex, nuanced border state, you have other more pop liesed movements that are looked at. so we look at something like the sit-inha borrow in 1960 in north carolina, but not looking at the sit-ins occurring here at reid's drugstore in 1955. we're looking at howie vents are involving the southern christian leadership conference in 1957, but not looking to see how women te
historians have termed a new way of setting the civil rights movement, the long civil rights movement, looking not just at the black-white binary, but also looking at how women are looked at, religion, issues of sexuality, issues of new folk kai of gender and trying to be more maryland's place in the civil rights movement is really intriguing because maryland is a border state. so it's neither north, north-south. i had this argument again with my students this afternoon in my great migration...
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in 1948 best black lawyers did civil rights law. they did it in part because that's what they wanted to do but they did civil rights law in part because other areas were closed to them. in a sense, ironic sense the discrimination against them by many of the law firms would lead them to be involved in the kinds of activities that would help to change american life and particularly african-american life. let me come back to charles houston. as i said before, he's the one who would chart the legal strategy that would lead to brown. that strategy was very simple. at least i'm going to simplify it. essentially it was this. the culprit is segregation. racial segregation. but one cannot confront segregation directly in 1940. one has to confront the edges of segregation and essentially what these lawyers were trying to do was to look for, if you will, the weak spots, the weak places, the edges as i said before, the edges of segregation. what's the edge of segregation? well, the schools in the border states. so they would go after -- they wo
in 1948 best black lawyers did civil rights law. they did it in part because that's what they wanted to do but they did civil rights law in part because other areas were closed to them. in a sense, ironic sense the discrimination against them by many of the law firms would lead them to be involved in the kinds of activities that would help to change american life and particularly african-american life. let me come back to charles houston. as i said before, he's the one who would chart the legal...
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by 1962 heat sanitizes about civil rights, and just after the civil rights movement happens, goes to the senate floor and he calls bayard a homosexual and pervert. the national media latches onto this. and they pummel bayard and rights leaders for comments. at this point, the civil rights leaders stand by his side. byard says at this point community to judge me on my whole character. my whole life. bayard also does not talk about his gay sexuality in the media. he doesn't do that. he is of the school that says at this point that one we beat sexuality is a private matter. he writes this in a letter in 1985 to a man who is putting together an anthology of writing by african-american gays. bayard said he considered orientation to be a private matter. by the mid- 1980s, he stands up for gay rights and speaks on behalf of gay rights in new york city. but he does so in part because of walter nagel, his longtime companion, have been encouraging him to do so. with walter smudging, he began to speak out on behalf of gay rights. of course, since then, the gay-rights movement has seen byard as
by 1962 heat sanitizes about civil rights, and just after the civil rights movement happens, goes to the senate floor and he calls bayard a homosexual and pervert. the national media latches onto this. and they pummel bayard and rights leaders for comments. at this point, the civil rights leaders stand by his side. byard says at this point community to judge me on my whole character. my whole life. bayard also does not talk about his gay sexuality in the media. he doesn't do that. he is of the...
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now, why study the music of the civil rights movement? and when you look at this period, it's really striking how the mass media affected people's perceptions of the movement, and we're talking about the nightly news. we're talking about print journalism, photo journalism and also popular culture, popular music and film and sports. the 1960s, and i think we've talked about this, were very unique in that the times, the civil rights movement, the social movement of the era, the anti-war movement and women's movement. it politicized all sorts of realms of culture. popular music became a field, an arena where people expressed their views of the time, and, you know, popular culture is also interesting in that it gives marginalized groups, people from marginalized groups, a voice, a political voice that they might not otherwise have. and so here we see a couple of countercultural icons of the 1960s and 1970s, and perhaps even still today, bob dylan and mohamed ali. there's an interesting comment i ran across, it's a popular music. the broader s
now, why study the music of the civil rights movement? and when you look at this period, it's really striking how the mass media affected people's perceptions of the movement, and we're talking about the nightly news. we're talking about print journalism, photo journalism and also popular culture, popular music and film and sports. the 1960s, and i think we've talked about this, were very unique in that the times, the civil rights movement, the social movement of the era, the anti-war movement...
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these struggles for civil rights have not always been easy. when they occur they often revolve around the constitution, the rights that define us as a nation have always been secured. the first ten amendments to the constitution are known as the bill of rights. they spell out the personal rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to every american, including freedom of speech, religion and the press, the right to petition the government, the right to bear arms and the right to due process of law. most of the later amendments sought to explicitly extend rights granted in the constitution itself, to individuals who had been excluded from full participation in our democracy, when the constitution was adopted in 1787. three post civil war amendments abolished slavery, make former slaves u.s. citizens and grant them the right to vote. the 19th amendment grants women the right to vote and another grants access to the ballot by 18-year-olds. we may view these founding documents as timeless but the government they envisioned and that we inherited was no
these struggles for civil rights have not always been easy. when they occur they often revolve around the constitution, the rights that define us as a nation have always been secured. the first ten amendments to the constitution are known as the bill of rights. they spell out the personal rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to every american, including freedom of speech, religion and the press, the right to petition the government, the right to bear arms and the right to due process of law....
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i want to now get to eisenhower's some say finest moment with regards to civil rights and that's, of course, what happened at little rock. gang, remember, we've said neither truman nor eisenhower looking for social equality, yet we now, as you have articulated very well, understand what eisenhower was doing that, he had the power to do, so here he is at a situation at little rock, and his hand is forced, but before we get to what he did, ernie green, tell us the story of little rock, so there you were standing alone. your buddies abandoned you. >> i -- everybody's got a favorite teacher story. one of those magic moments. he had a -- at the black high school that i attended before going to central, my 11th grade history teacher whose name was gwendolyn scott, she taught black history. i'm sure if the little rock school board knew what she was doing they would have arrested. because we studied, you know, rebellions, the protest movement, the beginning of the naacp, all of this, and it just seemed to me, that again, going back to -- till was in my consciousness. montgomery bus boycott b
i want to now get to eisenhower's some say finest moment with regards to civil rights and that's, of course, what happened at little rock. gang, remember, we've said neither truman nor eisenhower looking for social equality, yet we now, as you have articulated very well, understand what eisenhower was doing that, he had the power to do, so here he is at a situation at little rock, and his hand is forced, but before we get to what he did, ernie green, tell us the story of little rock, so there...
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we're going to discuss the civil rights movement origin our discussion of the civil rights movement tonight. for those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others i'm quintard taylor and i'm a professor of history, american history at the university of washington. okay, we'll get started. last time -- last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. i'm going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think it's even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the civil rights movement. we tend to think about the civil rights movement as martin luther king, jr., fanny hammer and larger-than-life figures. but i would argue that the civil rights movement was made up by ordinary people including and you'll find out tonight a lot of college students. a lot of college students. in fact, in some ways the driving force of the civil rights movement came from people who were probably no ol
we're going to discuss the civil rights movement origin our discussion of the civil rights movement tonight. for those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others i'm quintard taylor and i'm a professor of history, american history at the university of washington. okay, we'll get started. last time -- last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in...
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the two big changes are in civil rights and the civil rights and nba tom. so those were lasting effects. >> host: what you seem to be suggesting that the engines of change if you will buy the civil rights movement and changes taking place within the movement in the word itself so that you understand the cultural transformation, a much broader cultural transformation. you understand about power movement more so than just a movement, but the cultural transformation that takes place in the black community. you understand within the white community and you understand ultimately the culture wars if you will coming out of the ferment of the 60s, which really began in 1965. so that seems to be what is at stake of a novel. but it also seems to be what is at stake at another level is all of the political strength that we've had young just the culture wars that reaganism must be understood by 1965 in the great society. so the big players in the game of the civil rights movement and the lbj administration because they think of that as a third fact there. the great soc
the two big changes are in civil rights and the civil rights and nba tom. so those were lasting effects. >> host: what you seem to be suggesting that the engines of change if you will buy the civil rights movement and changes taking place within the movement in the word itself so that you understand the cultural transformation, a much broader cultural transformation. you understand about power movement more so than just a movement, but the cultural transformation that takes place in the...
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but clearly i think civil rights is as vietnam received in the memory the legacy of civil rights is clear every more present in a daily lives and i think will lead to his not only reassessment but indication. there's one conner conversation that's in the book where he's given the johnson treatment in person to george wails alabama governor. it's a remarkable -- at the pivot toll moment in history. i don't know if you care to read it to the audience. it's on the left-hand side there. >> guest: i'll be happy to do this. >> start here. >> guest: sure. let me set the stage. wallace reads the notion of sending federal troops into alabama when the the voting rights issue was at play. and alabama was almost at the boiling point. and so wallace is call to the white house. and like jfk, lbj had a rocking chair in his oval office. he was six feet three inches tall and he would frequently have where john is sitting on a couch that is for a lower than the rocking chair. and johnson would rock the chair up and literally lean over them and look down at them. and now bear in mind, as i mentioned, lbj is
but clearly i think civil rights is as vietnam received in the memory the legacy of civil rights is clear every more present in a daily lives and i think will lead to his not only reassessment but indication. there's one conner conversation that's in the book where he's given the johnson treatment in person to george wails alabama governor. it's a remarkable -- at the pivot toll moment in history. i don't know if you care to read it to the audience. it's on the left-hand side there. >>...
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we have it on civil rights legislation. minority set-asides, more help for black colleges, and we have it in terms of offering people opportunity and hope instead of despair. >> along those lines, sir, many recent studies have indicated that the poor and minorities have not really shared in the new prosperity generated by the current economic recovery. was it right for your administration to pursue economic policies that required those at the bottom of the economic ladder to wait for prosperity to trickle down from people who are much better off than they? >> mr. white, it is not trickling down. i am not suggest thrg is no poverty. i am saying the way to work out of poverty is through real opportunity. in the meantime, the needy are getting more help. human resource spending is way, way up. aide for dependent children is up. immunization programs are up. almost every place you can point, contrary to mr. mondale -- i have to be careful. contrary to how he goes around just saying everything bad. if somebody sees a silver lini
we have it on civil rights legislation. minority set-asides, more help for black colleges, and we have it in terms of offering people opportunity and hope instead of despair. >> along those lines, sir, many recent studies have indicated that the poor and minorities have not really shared in the new prosperity generated by the current economic recovery. was it right for your administration to pursue economic policies that required those at the bottom of the economic ladder to wait for...
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others might say okay you're right by that time we have the civil rights and voting rights. let's move on. not everybody will be happy that there's something happening. in other words i don't necessarily think the split in the civil rights movement is inherently important. it still needs the voting rights act. it's not inherently important in terms of the division in sncc. the black world changes in a way that we know in 64 there are riots in philadelphia, there is a riot in harlem and they seem to mean something but what is different? and so, it's not even the sheer violence of it i think a lot of it has to do -- i think people are more shocked by their right in california, paray yet in l.a.. tell us about that. how does it really change the black movement or just the way that people proceed? >> what does it do to the black community and white liberalism? what happens? >> the white liberalism what it does is they were shoulder to shoulder with blacks in the south and some of them have killed and after a while it is a setback. they are not non-violent people, they are hoodlu
others might say okay you're right by that time we have the civil rights and voting rights. let's move on. not everybody will be happy that there's something happening. in other words i don't necessarily think the split in the civil rights movement is inherently important. it still needs the voting rights act. it's not inherently important in terms of the division in sncc. the black world changes in a way that we know in 64 there are riots in philadelphia, there is a riot in harlem and they...
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but the big changes are in civil rights and the civil rights movement and vietnam and of those do have very lasting effects. >> what seems to be suggested is that in the change if you will are the civil rights movements taking place within the movement and the war itself so that you understand the cultural transformation, the much broader transformation and you understand the black power movement more so than just a movement, the cultural transformation that is taking place in the black community you understand the culture transformation within the white community, and you understand ultimately in the cultural war if you will coming out of the sixties which would have began in 1965. and so that seems to be what is at stake at one level but it also seems to be at stake in another level. all of the political strength in the narrow cultural war if in reference to 1965 and the great society's so the big players in the game for the civil rights movement and the lbj's administration was more general because i think about the third factor in the great society itself so those are the three thi
but the big changes are in civil rights and the civil rights movement and vietnam and of those do have very lasting effects. >> what seems to be suggested is that in the change if you will are the civil rights movements taking place within the movement and the war itself so that you understand the cultural transformation, the much broader transformation and you understand the black power movement more so than just a movement, the cultural transformation that is taking place in the black...
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the focus now is not just on civil rights. it is based on silver rights, meaning economic empowerment for the african-american community. not only do we it -- what did some of the right to sit down at a lunch counter to have a cup of coffee, we want to be able to own those lunch counters. not only was the fight back then to sit on the front of us, now we want to be able to own those buses. the fight to be able to live in any neighborhood that you want to has been fought. now, we have to have the fight for economic opportunities to be able to afford the houses in any neighborhood that we want to live in. it is a different fight, more about silver rights rather than civil rights at this point. economic of our net debt economic imperatives for the african-american community. their jobs, opportunities to be able to own your own businesses, and entrepreneurship is our focus now. not just being employees, we want to be employers so we can hire folks to do a job that we have already been doing for hundreds of years. there is a differ
the focus now is not just on civil rights. it is based on silver rights, meaning economic empowerment for the african-american community. not only do we it -- what did some of the right to sit down at a lunch counter to have a cup of coffee, we want to be able to own those lunch counters. not only was the fight back then to sit on the front of us, now we want to be able to own those buses. the fight to be able to live in any neighborhood that you want to has been fought. now, we have to have...
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working on an oral history project, as well, the march on milwaukee civil history rights project. what can you tell us about that? >> so, the march on milwaukee several history rights project is a digital archive, it's an online archive of sources relating to mostly the struggle for open housing and school desegregation in 1960s milwaukee. it includes oral histories, but it also includes text documents, photographs and video footage, news footage from a local tv station at the time. >> what do you find the biggest challenge is? because your document, both of you are relatively recent history. we're talking in the case of the civil rights into the '60s -- '50s and '60s in the case of the japanese heritage project, the 1940s or so. what are the biggest challenges in terms of finding original source material? >> well, we had at my university, university of wisconsin, milwaukee, we had a lot of the documents already in our physical archives. so the challenge was to make them more accessible and to give them a kind of a context so that students in milwaukee in particular but beyond cou
working on an oral history project, as well, the march on milwaukee civil history rights project. what can you tell us about that? >> so, the march on milwaukee several history rights project is a digital archive, it's an online archive of sources relating to mostly the struggle for open housing and school desegregation in 1960s milwaukee. it includes oral histories, but it also includes text documents, photographs and video footage, news footage from a local tv station at the time....